Burgesses is valid Scrabble Word

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9 letters word
12 points in Scrabble
15 points in WWF

Definitions for BURGESSES in dictionary:

NOUN:

BURGESS, a citizen of a borough, also PORTMAN
an inhabitant of a town or borough with full rights of citizenship.
a Member of Parliament for a borough, corporate town, or university.
(in the US and also historically in the UK) a magistrate or member of the governing body of a town.
a member of the assembly of colonial Maryland or Virginia.

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a citizen of an English borough

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How to use BURGESSES in a sentence

He had been chosen a member of the House of Burgesses, as had his father before him, and was one of the most considerable men in the county.
He steadily fitted himself for his life as a country gentleman of Virginia, and doubtless aspired to sit in the House of Burgesses.
The house of burgesses was called to order, though little order was preserved on that day, when a collision between law and rebellion seemed inevitable.
The senate was completed, not as timid patriots urged, from the Latins, but from the Roman burgesses who had the best title.
Gaius Lucretius was unanimously condemned by the burgesses.
With equal fearlessness he reproved and publicly scolded the burgesses for every new injustice and every fresh disorder.
Thou seest not, my poor Warwick, that these burgesses are growing up into power.
He had enough to do, taking care of his plantations, hunting foxes with his sport-loving neighbors, and sitting for a part of each year in the House of Burgesses at Williamsburg.
On the 11th of September, accordingly, a new meeting of princes, lords, prelates, parliament, the university, and burgesses was held in the great hall of the Louvre.
Several persons, burgesses and their wives, took supper with him.

Distinguish between citizens and burgesses in England.
The following March, when attending the Burgesses at Williamsburg, he got into a game, probably at Mrs.
Riddell and others, for the use of the Mayor and Burgesses of Newcastle.
Edward threw himself with ardour on to the side of the burgesses.
At Bury the barons, knights, and burgesses made liberal offerings for the war.
A few of the chief rebels were punished, but a pardon was issued to the mass of the burgesses.
The English burgesses were expelled, though Bruce showed wonderful moderation, and few of his enemies were slain.
Accordingly he made his way to Nantes and, receiving a warm welcome from his burgesses, proclaimed himself duke.
The burgesses were tenants-in-chief of the king, held of him by charter, and stood in the same relation to him as other tenants-in-chief.
In the assembly of 1638 several of the servants in the first emigration took their seats as burgesses.
The body of the free burgesses was very cautiously enlarged from court to court.
Clergy and burgesses, council and governor, planters of Virginia and bishops of London had stood by its birth.
Martha Custis, and to take the seat in the House of Burgesses to which he had just been elected.
It was the voice of a General Lee of Virginia that was lifted against slavery in the House of Burgesses.
Montague, agent of the House of Burgesses in England, made extracts from the bill, copied the names, and sent them to Peyton Randolph.
Burgesses claimed to be masters in their own house and acted in concert with an eye to the common good.
In the year 1416, in order to turn them out of the city, Jean Roche concerted with divers burgesses.
No misfortune was more feared by burgesses than that of receiving men-at-arms, and no privilege more jealously guarded than that of keeping them outside the walls.
In the next year we hear again of John Washington in the House of Burgesses, when Sir William Berkeley assailed his troops for the murder of the Indians during the parley.
Kirke, on another occasion, gave a town to understand that he knew its principles to be republican, by hanging nineteen burgesses.
Address to General Grant by mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Gateshead, England.
Address to General Grant by the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of Sheffield, England.
Address to General Grant from the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of the borough of Folkestone, England.

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